Any moron can download a movie or album—but torrenting a new pair of jeans? That's the future right there. At least according to Swedish anti-copyright royalty The Pirate Bay, which declaredphysical objects to be their next bounty.

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Or, "physible," as they're calling it for some reason. But nevermind that. The Pirate Bay is committed to a (rather lofty) vision of the future:

We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.

Is this sci-fi talk? For now, yeah. Even the recently awesome MakerBot can only replicate things in two colors. Made out of plastic. That's a pretty far cry from downloading my sneakers, an exponentially more complex "physible" (ugh, that term). Still, it's nice to know that TPB has its eyes on what we'll be stealing next—if there's anyone brazen enough to make it happen, it's those Swedes. One thing I don't buy, however, is this humanitarian spin:

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The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We'll be able to print food for hungry people. We'll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal.